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2024 Best Reviews from Me and You!

2024 Best Reviews from Me and You in September! What have I been reading? What have my readers been saying? Find out what people are talking about!

2024 Best Reviews: Here is Your First Review

The Vardoger Boy by Jay Veloso Batista
2024 Best Reviews:

The Vardoger Boy (Forerunner Series)
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Jay Veloso Batista (Goodreads Author)

All Andy Zach‘s reviews – Sep 24, 2024  

really liked it 4 stars

bookshelves: fantasyhistoric-fiction

What struck me first after the book was how vivid the descriptions were. You could see and smell the characters, taste the seed cakes, and feel the cold drizzle. As author describes his characters, their families, and their struggles, you care for each of them.

Quickly, the families are disrupted and scattered by war in what is now England, between the Danes and the Saxons. Hold on tightly, for the war is rough and brutal.

Meanwhile, the Vardoger Boy, Torfinn, goes sailing. He is partially in our world and partially in a magical world. He has an entire set of adventures simultaneously with the war.

You won’t be able to put this down until you have finished.

2024 Best Reviews: Your Second Review

Produce Your Audiobook Secret Supers in Space
2024 Best Reviews:
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Secret Supers in Space: The further adventures of disabled teen superheroes

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Great Sequel

September 7, 2024

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The book picks up shortly after the last one. Early conversations recap the previous events to bring you up to speed. The story has action, adventure, comedy, and even romance. With something for everyone I recommend giving it a try.

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2024 Best Reviews: Your Third Review

2024 Best Reviews:

All Andy Zach‘s Reviews

Author 10 books 96 followers September 19, 2024

Harmon Cooper continues his delightful cozy fantasy about a man who dies and comes to the underworld. He becomes a brewer and opens a pub in his first book. In the second, he begins farming. With the pub, he gets a magical, protective cat, Patches.

With the farm, he gets a magical protective day, Cornbread. What’s his motivation? Every day, he gets a notice about an invasion coming in 90 days. Then 89. And so on. He (His name is Sylas), figures he needs to get as powerful as possible to face this unknown threat.

His quest leads him to these careers and to powerful people in the Underworld–and hell itself.

2024 Best Reviews: Your Last Review

Get Your Zombie Turkeys Laughter
2024 Best Reviews:
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M Khan
382 reviews 18 followers September 25, 2024

Hilarious, Action-Packed Romp

“Zombie Turkeys” is a wildly entertaining and unpredictable ride that combines humor, horror, and heart. Sam Melvin, a small-town reporter, and his editor, Lisa Kambacher, find themselves at the forefront of a zombie turkey apocalypse.

Standout Elements:

1.⁠ ⁠Unique blend of humor and horror.
2.⁠ ⁠Well-developed, relatable protagonists.
3.⁠ ⁠Fast-paced, action-packed narrative.

Storyline:

Sam and Lisa navigate a chaotic world overrun by undead, unstoppable turkeys. As they report on the crisis, they face numerous challenges, from bloodthirsty hordes to paranoid militias.

Final Thoughts:

“Zombie Turkeys” is an outrageously entertaining and clever novel that will leave you laughing and on the edge of your seat. With its unique blend of humor and horror, this book is a must-read for fans of the genre.

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What Do YOU Think? But First, Your Free Book

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So, tell me what you think! Leave a review of my books and I’ll publish it on my blog. On Amazon, post them starting here.

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Your Best Summer Science Fiction Fuel

Four Crazy Book Ideas by Author Andy Zach

Your Best Summer Science Fiction Fuel – Let me give you the best articles I’ve found for sparking science fiction story ideas. Let m know your idea and I’ll give you a free book!

Ready? Let’s go!

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST for short) looked further into the past than ever before. And they found galaxies. This was only half a billion years after the Big Bang. How could they form so quickly?

Aside from the mystery, how would I use this for fiction? I’d have a super intelligence forming these galaxies for its purposes. How would you use this new science fact for science fiction? Tell me and get a free book. Click here.

Your Best Summer Science Fiction Fuel – Part 2

Imagine soaring through interstellar space faster than light. That’s what this video makes me think. How about you? Tell me.

If you can’t think of anything to say, just click and join my newsletter and you’ll get free audiobooks.

This’d make a great cover for that book or short story:

What’s Next in Your Best Summer Science Fiction Fuel?

How about this story?

Here we have the world’s most detailed and best preserved skeleton of a trilobite. They’re very common fossils from 300 million years ago. But usually the soft parts don’t get preserved. This time they did.

I can think of several ideas from this article:

  1. Someone found some trilobites and is breeding them on their private property.
  2. A person got a time machine and went back to this time period and picked up so.
  3. The trilobites developed an advanced civilization and traveled ahead in time to our day.

What are your ideas?

More Story Fuel Coming Up!

I already have a zombie turkey apocalypse series. How about a squirrel apocalypse?

This tickles my funny bone: squirrels causing the downfall of civilization. I can think of dozens of scenarios, including leveraging my zombie world that begins below:

Best Science Stories Zombie Turkeys Gift
Science Stories
Your Best Summer Science Fiction Fuel
Get your Zombie Turkeys here. You get a bushel of laughter with each book.

How would you handle this? Get your book now, right here. You can also email me at [email protected] or you can write a comment on this blog.

Why do I give books away? Ideas are the most important resource a writer can have. Who knows if your idea will give me a great novel?

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Best February Reviews from Readers!

What Do Readers Think

Best February Reviews from Readers! What’s going on in the book world this February? Who has reviewed what? Which books stand out from the rest? Let me share with you the best reviews of some great books.

Best February Reviews: Here is Your First Review

A Pub In the Underworld cover
Best February Reviews

Andy Zach

Author 10 books, 94 followers

February 17, 2024

I’ve read a lot of Harmon Cooper and this is the coziest book he’s ever written. Here we have a hardened soldier, Sylus Runewolf, dying as he fought his country’s enemies in a battle. After his death he wakes up in the underworld. What’s more, he has a deed to a pub.

Some of Sylus’ favorite memories are from his boyhood where he helped in his father’s pub, so he’s eager to get the pub up and going. It’s quite the fixer-upper. But he gets a pub cat, Patches, who’s magical and helps him protect the pub from rats–and demons.

The pub is in Ember Hollow which is hard by the Chasm, the hell that is below the underworld. Sometimes demons slip in. Overhead are are Celestial Plains, or heaven, glowing in the sky.

This book is a delight for brewers, fantasy lovers, and RPG lit readers!

Best February Reviews: Your Second Review

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Best February Reviews
Secret Supers audiobook

Kat M

3,211 reviews

19 followers

February 25, 2024

This was a fun concept in the super-hero genre, it had everything that I was looking for in this type of book. The characters were interesting and had a great overall feel to this world. I enjoyed what I read and can’t wait for the sequel. Andy Zach has a great writing style and I’m glad I got to read this.

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Best February Reviews: Your Third Review

Best February Reviews

Andy Zach

Author 10 books, 94 followers

February 27, 2024

I just re-read this novel after 20 years from my first read. I loved my initial read and I kept remembering inspirational sections of the book, so I had to re-read it.

Ben Fielding, a successful VP with a keen interest in China, leads his company investments there in the 1990s. To promote their Chinese division, Ben decides to spend a couple weeks living with a Chinese family. He decides to contact his old Harvard roommate, Li Quan, who went back to China after graduating with honors.

Ben has mixed emotions about his old friend. They were very close at Harvard, but fell out of touch while Ben got married, had kids, and got divorced. There’s also the awkward fact Ben introduced Quan to Christianity, which Ben no longer practices.

So with mixed emotions Ben drives to meet his old friend, three hours away from Shanghai.

That’s when the novel really begins. Li Quan is the backup pastor for an illegal Chinese house church and is under suspicion by the government. Ben is clueless about Christianity in China. It’s a major threat to the Communist government which persecutes it severely. Ben is forceed to decide between his old friend and his company, which needs the favor of the Chinese government.

The novel holds up well 20 years later. China has become more repressive toward Christianity and Christianity has grown beyond a hundred million people.

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What is Villain’s Vacation All About?

Four disabled seventh-graders with superpowers take a vacation at Coaster World. They need a break from fighting criminals. Ever since the beginning of the school year when they acquired their unusual abilities, they’ve been training and using those powers to fight crime in their town.

Little do they know the arch-villain they recently defeated also loves coasters and is vacationing at Coaster World. Worse, the villain wants revenge. Nothing less than turning these teens to a life of crime will satisfy.

Can Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey withstand the villain’s attacks? Or will they become Super Villains?

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What Do YOU Think? But First, Your Free Book

I wasn’t kidding. You can really get this book for free. I give it to all my newsletter subscribers right here: click to get your audiobook.

What’s the catch? I only have limited supplies of free codes. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

So, tell me what you think! Leave a review of my books and I’ll publish it on my blog. On Amazon, post them starting here.

On Goodreads, post your review starting here.

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